Disinfectant.



T to 1077,0711, it may concern:

UNITED STATES Patented June 16, 1903.

PATENT Fries,

GEORGE (JIIISM, OF OARROLLTON, ILLINOIS, .ASSIGNOR TO THE MEXICANDISINFECTANT COMPANY, OF OARROLLTON, ILLINOIS.

DISINFECTANT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,340, dated June 16,1903.

Application filed January 29,1903. erial No. 141,043. [No s ecimens.)

Be it known that I, GEORGE CHISM, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Oarrollton, in the county of Greene and State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Disinfectants, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in disinfectants, deodorizers,and germicides, the objects of which are to provide a compound of thisnature which will prove far superior to any heretofore invented or inuse and one which will be harmless if taken internally. This compoundwill prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases and can beused in the same manner as those already on the market, as will be morefully set forth hereinafter and particularly pointed out in the claims.

My composition consists of the following ingredients combined generallyin the proportions and in the manner stated: unslaked lime, one barrel;extract of boneset, two gallons; copperas, twenty-five pounds; Spanishbrown, twenty pounds; drab mineral, thirty pounds; crude carbolic acid,one-half gallon; water, from six to nine buckets. These ingredients arecommingled and the compound prepared as follows: One barrel of unslakedlime is poured into a galvanized-iron vat of suitable size and providedwith a cover which should make the vat air-tight. Onto the lime arepoured three buckets of water and the cover placed upon the vat. Let themixture stand until the thermometer attached to the vat registers about150 Fahrenheit, the heat being generated by the mixture of water andunslaked lime. I now uncover the vat and add three buckets of cold watertogetherwith about three gallons of copperas water prepared bydissolving twenty-five pounds of copperas in three gallons of boilingwater, the copperas and boiling water being well stirred in order tofacilitate the dissolution of the copperas. After the addition of thedissolved copperas to the solution in the vat I stir the mixture rapidlyfor about five minutes, then cover the vat, and allow the compound tostand until partially cool. Meanwhile I take all the root, leaves, andstalk of a plant or herb called boneset that can be crowded into avessel of suitable size and adding water thereto boil the infusion untilall of the substance or strength of the material has been drawn orextracted from the plant. I then take about twogallons of the extract ofboneset and place it in a separate vessel over a fire together withabout half a gallon of carbolic acid, allowing the liquid to standtherein until the boiling-point is almost reached, whereupon I pour themixture into the partially-cooled vat containing the compound and stirrapidly until all the ingredients are well commingled. The compound isnow allowed to cool off, and while so cooling I sprinkle-about thirtypounds of drab mineral and about twenty-five pounds of Spanish browninto the vat and compress or hammer the mass down in any suitablemanner, as with a heavy shovel, and allow the contents of the vat tostand uncovered for a suitable length of time. Then I stir or comminglethe whole mass until it forms itself into a dry or approximately drypowder, when the compound is complete.

Water may be added at any time during the process of commingling theingredients from any suitable source whenever it is necessary toincrease the heat in the vat generated by the mixture of water andunslaked lime.

This invention possesses both disinfecting and deodorizing qualities andmay be used in vaults, water-closets, slaughter-houses, damp cellars,and in'sick-rooms. It may also be used by undertaker-s, or strewn on thebody of any dead animal to render the latter inodorous, and it may beused with the same result in slop-barrels, strong-smelling cisterns, orwater-tanks. It may be scattered in alley-ways and will destroy diseasegerms, and it may be taken into the stomach without harmful effect.

1am aware that compounds of a nature similar to mine have beenheretofore invented; but I claim that my ingredients are subject to anddo chemically change during the process of compounding the mixture andthat in none of the compounds heretofore invented is a like chemicalchange wrought or the characters of the principal ingredients lost orsubmerged in the minor ingredients with the same desirable effect.

The proportions of the ingredients set forth Will admit of but slightvariation in accomplishing the satisfactory result now obtained.

I am aware that a patent was issued to Charles F. Bond August 6, 1885),No. 408,454, on a com pound consisting of slaked lime, red ocher,carbolic acid, creosote, bichlorid of mercury, salicylic acid, sulfateof iron and water, and I am also aware of a composition comprisingcopperas, coal-tar, and charcoal, a patent for which was granted toEdgar Granville Xander February 8, 1887, No. 357.259, both relating tocompounds designed to attain the same result as that accomplished by myinvention; but I am not aware that all of the ingredients of mycomposition have been used together.

Therefore what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

-1. The herein-described composition of matter containing lime, boneset,Spanish brown, carbolic acid and copperas.

2. The herein-described composition of matter containing lime, boneset,Spanish brown, carbolic acid, copperas and drab mineral.

3. The herein-described composition of matter for disinfecting,deodorizing and gerinicidal purposes containing water, lime, ex-

tract of boneset, Spanish brown, carbolic acid, v

ing witnesses.

GEORGE OIIlSM. WVitnesses:

E. W. OHIsM, W. II. RAINES.

